Some time ago, a friend commissioned me a watercolor painting of a special lady. Here is the final work, following a principle one of my watercolor masters repeated often: “never paint just a portrait, always paint a personality”

And that’s what I tried with this portrait. Quoting my very talented friend Vítor Sousa:

[There are women who descend from the sun. In the languid unconscious of the motherly womb, they sign a pact with fire. They are born already untameable, rebelling against the absorbing force of Prometheus, who rescues the fire from the recesses. Thew grow seeding cinders when they breathe. Sometimes, in a careless whim, lost kisses ignite fire to fate. Boiling, then, reminiscences from eternity barricaded in the aridness of absence. (…) There are women who descend from the sun. They are pyromaniacs of souls.]

Some time ago, a gracious editor from the ESQUIRE (Middle East) magazine contacted me because they were running a feature about “ESSENTIAL GRAPHIC NOVELS” recommended by Comic Book Stores from all over the world. I sent them my contribution (recommending David Lloyd’s KICKBACK – a BLOODY BRILLIANT Graphic Novel).

Today I received a “Limited Edition” of the issue where my text was published. These are the (beautifully designed) pages with the recommendations from all over the world, published in ESQUIRE:

And for those interested in reading about the Graphic Novel KICKBACK, written and illustrated by the brilliant David Lloyd, here is the text:

You can search for this Graphic Novel (and many others) at the Livraria Sétima Dimensão [Seventh Dimension Bookstore]: http://setimadimensao.com/x/